Perhaps you can use datacat_fragments exported resources and then collect them and put them together with the datacat_collector.
https://github.com/richardc/puppet-datacat/ Regards, El 10/09/2014 00:49, <mpouns...@afilias.info> escribió: > I have a difficult-to-manage application which does not implement a conf.d > or include syntax in its configuration, but requires a bunch of config > snippets that contain information only on groups of other servers. I've > been dealing with this by generating the config snippets from templates on > some servers as exported resources, realizing them on the central server, > and then executing an external script to "compile" these snippets into the > final config. > > This has a couple of drawbacks. First, it requires puppet to stat nearly > 15,000 little tiny config snippets every run that are not actually used > directly, and shouldn't need to exist. Second, the final config file, > because it's compiled by an external script, isn't under the control of > puppet, so it has no idea if that file gets modified by something outside.. > so it can't know to update it. > > I've been mulling over a better way to manage this config file, and I > think I've hit on an idea, but I have no idea if it will actually work, or > what the syntax would look like if it could. > > I'm thinking of replacing the @@file resources on the remote servers with > a defined type .. say .. @@data_container. Then, on the server where the > data is needed I could use a collector to iterate over the exported > resources reading data from them to use in the single template for the > final config file. > > Where the data is defined: > @@data_container { 'mydata': > someparameter => 'foo' > } > > And then in the template on the other host, somehow get a collection of > those resources into an array, and make use of their parameters as > variables to be referenced in the template.. > > <%- collection.each do |data| -%> > <%= data.someparameter %> > <%- end -%> > > Would this work at all? Is there syntax to support something like this? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7732833b-55f8-4e1b-8869-4ec231d36964%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7732833b-55f8-4e1b-8869-4ec231d36964%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAF_B3dckc5ddaL%2BMbGokiQ6r1za1RZx8E7vw5VmszPOhMQ1jLg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
